linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

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Date:	Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:58:18 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>, andrei.popa@...eo.ro,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
	Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>,
	Marc Haber <mh+linux-kernel@...schlus.de>,
	Martin Michlmayr <tbm@...ius.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

	On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:51:55 -0800 (PST)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 10:59 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > >
> > > >  here's a totally new tangent on this: it's possible that user code is 
> > > > simply BUGGY. 
> > 
> > I'm sad to say this doesn't trigger :-(
> 
> Oh, well. It was a theory. 
> 

Well... we'd need to see (corruption && this-not-triggering) to be sure.

Peter, have you been able to trigger the corruption?
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